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Thank you, Tom, for another lovely Schuyler poem accompanied by stunning photos. Your last Schuyler posting of Salute prompted me to take Schuyler's The Morning of the Poem off the shelf. There I found the delightful "Footnote" -- the poem about the bluet. In it, he mentions his own poem "The Bluet" and Joan Mitchell's painting "The Bluet." What fun to follow the trail, thanks to your posting.

This spring flowers have filled our lives in Texas. First, glorious fields of bluebonnets; then yellow flowers -- all the while road sides lined with all kinds of blooms. (Thanks to Lady Bird)

You've made the week brighter with bringing Schuyler's back into my life -- his delight of nature and his daily happenings, shining light on a dark time of oil spewing into the Gulf and ruined futures of humans and wildlife.

It was your (and of course Schuyler's) wildflowering that prompted this post -- along with the wish for a moment of light and uplift, amid or apart from the oppressive thought of that enveloping slick.

Amazing how simple things (and feelings, those other "things") become when one pays a bit of attention, and how complicated it always seems to be to get oneself into the attention frame. Jimmy appears to be able to get there at will.

Hi Tom, A propos floral counterpoint and clarity and Jimmy's flowers (I'm not exactly an unbiasedobserver here!), I'm reminded of that late poem of his,"Horse-Chestnut Trees and Roses", (delineating all the extraordinary names of all the various breeds -"darkly brooding Prince Camille de Rohan, on/which, out of a cloudless sky, a miraculous rain/once fell.."- "(the) smallest, most delicate, delectable/of all, Rose de Meaux.." etc, etc - and the denouement of the poem: "I went by there Sunday last and they're gone, all/gone, uprooted, supplanted by a hateful "foundation planting" of dinky conifers.." etc Interestingly, the version in the Collected Poems (my copy at least) omits the crucial final line - three scathing words (with continuing resonance these days) - "Odious hateful vandal"